Meaning Of Make For Somewhere/something In English

Meaning of make for somewhere/something in English

make for somewhere/something

phrasal verb with make verb uk /meɪk/ us /meɪk/ made | made Add to word list Add to word list B2 to go in the direction of a place or thing: They made for the centre of town. Synonym make towards something/someone Advancing and moving forward

• ballistically
• beeline
• bull
• come over phrasal verb
• cruise
• follow a path
• forward
• gain
• ghost
• glide
• lead
• lunge
• make towards something/someone phrasal verb
• proceed
• progress
• pull
• roll
• run
• stream
• troop

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make for something

phrasal verb with make verb uk /meɪk/ us /meɪk/ made | made to result in or make possible: Having faster computers would make for a more efficient system. Causing things to happen

• activation
• actuation
• add fuel to something
• agent
• at the instigation of someone
• breed
• fulfil
• gift
• give rise to idiom
• hyperstimulate
• hyperstimulation
• prompt
• provoke
• proximately
• put someone to something idiom
• Pygmalion effect
• reactivate
• render
• spark
• spell

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make for somewhere/something | American Dictionary

make for somewhere/something

phrasal verb with make verb us /meɪk/ past tense and past participle made us/meɪd/

(MOVE TOWARD)

Add to word list Add to word list to go directly toward someone or something: They split up and the man made for the subway. make for somethingphrasal verb

make for something phrasal verb (CREATE)

to be one thing, or the most important thing, that causes something: Everyone agreed that filming inside a chocolate factory would make for good television. (Definition of make for somewhere/something from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Translations of make for somewhere/something

in Chinese (Traditional) 走向, 向…前進, 導致… See more in Chinese (Simplified) 走向, 朝…前进, 导致… See more in Spanish dirigirse a algo, posibilitar algo, dirigirse hacia… See more in Portuguese rumar… See more in Marathi in Telugu in Tamil in Hindi in Bengali in Gujarati in Urdu जाणे… See more ఒక స్థలం లేదా వస్తువు యొక్క దిశలో వెళ్ళడానికి… See more ஒரு இடம் அல்லது பொருளின் திசையில் செல்ல… See more किसी स्थान या वस्तु की दिशा में जाना… See more একটি জায়গায় যেতে… See more કોઈ સ્થળ અથવા વસ્તુની દિશામાં જાઓ… See more کسی طرف جانا… See more Need a translator?

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    • make for somewhere/something
    • make for something
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  • Phrasal verb 
    • make for somewhere/something (MOVE TOWARD)
  • Phrasal verb 
    • make for something (CREATE)

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